I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

This flawless night sky adorned with crystal pendant stars is nothing more than a fragile glass of potential - shattered only to those who dare to break through it.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

As a child, I certainly had a fascination with monsters and vampires.

Every weed's fate is to bow in front of the wind!

Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

There are no rules in the entertainment business.